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Past Events
Educator Agency in the Age of AI: Building AI Literacy and Designing Learning in a Changing World (held in May 2026)
Faculty came together at James Madison University and online for an AI-Literacy focused workshop, Educator Agency in the Age of AI: Building AI Literacy and Designing Learning in a Changing World. This full-day symposium invited faculty from across Virginia to engage deeply with the question of how higher education should respond to AI—not simply through policies or restrictions, but through intentional teaching and curriculum design.
Participants gained a research-informed framework for understanding AI literacy in higher education, a deeper perspective on AI’s implications for learning and disciplinary practice, practical strategies for integrating AI literacy into courses and curricula, and a draft plan for implementing student reflection on AI’s impact on learning.
Virginia AI Symposium: Advancing Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI (held in January 2026)
The Virginia AI Symposium: Advancing Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI was a day-long, multi-modal, cross institutional event that brought together over 360 instructors, educational developers, staff, administrators, and students from 50 institutions to explore the potentials and pitfalls of generative AI (GenAI) in teaching and learning in higher education.
The symposium functioned as a key dissemination outlet for the MegaSoTL-AI initiative and was designed to support intentional, research-informed decision-making about GenAI’s evolving role in teaching and learning in higher education, and to foster cross-institutional dialogue in this domain. The symposium included a keynote, interactive sessions, and research presentations that translated emerging scholarship into actionable classroom practices. To maximize access and participation, both an in-person and a virtual track were held, with a shared, livestreamed keynote followed by unique sessions in each track.
Empowering Educators: Communicating about Ethical AI Use in Your Courses (held in February 2025)
Empowering Educators: Communicating about Ethical AI Use in Your Courses was held at at the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy (CHEP) as an interactive pre-conference workshop designed to help educators effectively communicate with students about ethical AI use in their courses. This hands-on session explored the ethical dimensions of AI in education, including redefining academic integrity and creating policies that promote an ethical AI culture. Through engaging discussions, case studies, and individual work, educators developed a coherent set of AI policies tailored to their courses and gained practical strategies for guiding students in responsible AI use. Workshop outcomes were for participants to be able to: Determine an appropriate AI policy for courses; Draft an AI policy syllabus statement; Develop a plan to transparently communicate AI policy to students.
The workshop was subsequently held online and state-wide in April 2025, and has since been offered at individual institutions such as William & Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, George Mason University, and others.